Subj : Re: Things I miss
To   : Dream Master
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Feb 22 2022 18:42:00

-=> Dream Master wrote to Nightfox <=-

 DM> I'm up between 5:30 and 6:30am daily.  When working in downtown,
 DM> and if I'd drive, I'd need to be on the road by 6am to be in the
 DM> office by 7-7:15am.  That's an hour of work down the drain, and
 DM> for what?  Again, the drive home being equally long, another
 DM> hour.  From an efficiency perspective, those two additional hours
 DM> I'm sitting in traffic each day aren't spent working.  I prefer
 DM> working from home, but if I have to take public transportation
 DM> into downtown, I'm on my computer working.

Here's some news - not everybody lives in a metropolitan sewer, where
sitting in traffic is a thing.  Also, not everybody works on a computer.

 > Also, costly for whom?  If you don't own a car at all, taking public
 > transportation can be less expensive than owning a car and paying for gas,
 > maintenance, car insurance, etc..

 DM> Exactly.  People don't seem to understand the savings by taking
 DM> public transportation.  You're not paying for auto insurance,
 DM> fuel, upkeep, potentially parking, and if you lease or are making
 DM> car payments, car payments. A $200 public transportation pass is
 DM> a hell of a lot cheaper than all those other expenses.  Plus, you
 DM> can write-off the pass.

You also don't have the freedom to move around that a car provides you.
That freedom is worth a LOT more than $200/month.



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